Welcome to Toy Slaves. This guide is to help you when dancing on the stage in the Brothel.
Dancing in the club is not about getting on a dance pole and turning off your brain. The dancing is the first impression our new customers have of the club and for many of them it is what leads them to do more than just watch the dancers. You control this by the quality of your greeting and your ongoing emotes. A club with a centre stage full of cheerful girls on poles teasing each other and the customers leads to a happy and exciting atmosphere. The club is where you belong.
Customers come here for many reasons, some like the conversation. These can be your most interesting clients, they stimulate you and make the evening go faster. Others want you to turn them on with your emotes, there are good prospects of taking these clients to one of our play areas for more.
Still other clients come to just watch. Sometimes you can with good emoting and teasing get these customers to have sex, but, failing that they are still valuable to us and we want to keep them in the club. They add to our traffic numbers whether they pay or not. Traffic is one measure people look at in search when deciding where to come.
You, with how you treat our customers determine our success
HOW TO SPEAK WITH A CUSTOMER ?
Always use complete words and call the customer Sir/Miss (with the initial letter in capital) and the name. Be sure to write the name properly.
Good example: Hello Mr. Jones, how are you on this fine day?
Bad example: Hi Mr. Jones, hru 2day?
Send a client an IM. Some clients are just shy. If they don’t respond to you in chat, send a short, polite IM. Try and get their attention, but don’t overdo it. Example: "How are you, Sir" simple and not too obtrusive. *Also note that many people do not recognize the difference between Chat and IM and so you may need to say...I am in IM now Sir...How are you, Sir?
HOW TO DANCE ?
Portal 1 is a mock-up of the center stage in the club. Only the central position is recreated. It is the position on the main stage where you can change the equipment. Always be sure to stand off of the equipment you are using before changing. Also, please be careful to wait for everything in the club to rezz before changing the center position pole. Often the last objects to rezz are the poles and your sister's avatar. If you haven't watched the video presented to you as you walked down the green line, watch it now. It explains and illustrates exactly what you need to do in portal 1.
1. We have a variety of animations and devices available for dancers. There are the dance poles. They are from Sine Waves and contain a variety of sensual dances.One of the available center poles on the main stage is a double pole (it has a red base) and quite popular with the customers and your sisters. In addition to the pole, the center station on the main stage has floor dances, a stool, a chair and a floor mat with very sexy dances. Clicking on the front of the main stage will show you a pop-up menu with the choices of the devices available. This system, in a slightly different configuration exists on the far right stage (as you look at the stage from the audience's perspective). Always be sure to stand up from the item you are using before choosing a new one or you will follow the pole, mat or chair below the stage and almost certainly drown. Right clicking on most of the devices will give you a menu and a chance to select dance from the pie menu.
2. There is a chimera available in the club, for the use of our staff only please. It is located by Rhianna (the DJ). Click on the laptop next to her to activate it. If you have one, use your own personal dance. You can purchase dance animations for your avatar from places like Sine Waves. And with a chimera or dance animator, you can have complete control of your dances anywhere you wish. How to use those will of course depend on the options you purchased and installed.
HOW TO LOG INTO A JAR ?
When you come on the stage you will have to log into a jar to get tips. The jars are around the stage. You have just to wear your group tag and click on the jar to log in. If you leave the club area or relog you will be logged out of the tip jar, however, if you only go backstage while away from your computer for some RL distraction, please log out of the jar. Please try to remember to log out. There are a limited number of jars. The tip jars start with an amount already showing along with an amount and a ficticious name for the last tipper. Hopefully this encourages customers to tip (they do not see girls on stage with $0L ever). The jars will log you out if you leave the area of the stage, but, if you log into the same jar when you return and no one has used it in the meantime, your totals will be preserved. Madame receives the tip money as it is deposited in the jars so nothing is lost if the total is overwritten when another girl signs into the same jar.
THE CUSTOMER CHAIRS AT THE STAGE
The chairs at the stage have regular sit animations in them. Customers use these by right clicking the chair. There is also a lapdance menu in the chair. You, as the dancer, access it by clicking on the base of the chair (usually the front half). The menu you get has 3 dance styles...warm, hot and very hot. Practice with them and decide which ones you like best. In addition to the standing dances, there is a button for lapdance.
Please use the chairs to thank customers for tips and to warm them up for bigger and better things. The length of time you spend in the chair should more or less represent the tip you got. Fifty lindens is going to be a shorter dance with less moves and shorter emotes than a $100L tip or $200L. Often clients will continue to tip you as you dance. This is very good but it will challenge you to continue the dance and the emotes. One way that seems to work, to squeeze more tips in the middle of a dance, is emoting the easing out of his/her lap. The prospect of the dance ending can wring a few more lindens out of your client.
A client who undresses or pulls his cock out should be told that we do those types of things in private. Quietly back out of his lap if he insists and always recommend that you go some place private.
Don't forget that as a thank you for tips we still strip. Mix the stripping with trips to the chairs or include it in your lap dance for the bigger tips.
STRIPPING ANIMATIONS
You will see a green bar at the edge of the stage in front of the centre pole. It is visible from the poles. It contains Dance animations (floor dances, very sexy ones) and the Strip animations.
When dancing on the poles it is important to remember to "Stand Up" before using the strip animations. So use stand up and step a little away from your pole, otherwise, you will stand with the pole through your body. The strip animations will override the chair animations so it is not necessary to get out of that menu. In both cases, however, you must click on the pole or restart the lap dance/freestyle menu once the strip menu has finished playing.
The strip menu mimics taking off stockings, top, bra, bottom and shoes (giggles, not in this lifetime). The animation is only an animation, you will still need to use the menu to actually remove the item. It will take a little practice, but it, like the chairs, is something we have that other clubs don't and should impress your customer.
Please practice with the menus. You will find it fun and very easy to work.
THE SIDE STAGES
There are 4 side stages, 2 to the right and 2 to the left of the main stage. They are lower and different sizes. The 2 smallest are closest to the main stage and to the right and left. They have dances loaded into them and may be occupied on occasion by afk girls. If they are empty feel free to use them. The stage furthest to the left as you look at the stage (closest to the Asian portal) is used for special live BDSM sex shows. It will have various pieces of equipment available from time to time.Clicking the stage will give you a pop up and the opportunity to chose another piece of equipment. The stage is most often used when a girl or customer requires public humiliation.
The large stage on the far right (the opposite side) has dances loaded as well and can have various other mats and furs available. At the time of this writing it has a dance pole, dance chair, dance stool, dance blanket and a streetlamp loaded with free form dances. In addition, there are some sex animations available in sex furs and a sex picnic rug.
In addition you can dance on the bar near Rhianna by left clicking the bar top, there are two spots available there.
There are a few other areas available. The bird bath for one. If they are unoccupied you can use them but they are often manned by bots (set as scripted agents to avoid charges of traffic tampering). It can be fun to try these and work out new emotes.
Madame and her team are constantly experimenting with other ways to incorporate dancing into the club. Notices of changes are provided in group notices between updates to this training card.
HOW TO EMOTE ?
(Some sample cards you can copy are on their own wiki page) HERE
It is very simple to emote you just have to start your text with /me in the local chat. You will then speak in the 3rd person and be able to describe what you feel and what you do. Writing good emotes takes training and is a bit difficult at the start. Do it as often as you can and you will quickly emote naturally. To start just describe what you are doing, even just follow the actions on the pole. After not very long you'll be adding flare to it.
/me blows a kiss to the handsome gentleman becomes (Your SL Name) blows a kiss to the handsome gentleman
HOW TO GREET ?
It is very important to greet people who come here to spend money ! They need to feel welcome or they will leave.
There are two ways to greet people: speaking or emoting.
SPEAKING:
"Hello Sir/Miss [name]. Welcome to the Toy Slaves Brothel."
if you see the customer looks shy or lost you can ask if he needs help. Don't forget the capital letter for Miss and Sir. Vary your greetings a little; when the customers are coming in fast it gets pretty boring to say the same thing again and again.
EMOTING:
You can heat the customers up and greet them in the same time. This way is harder and you need to be a bit experienced in emoting. An example is
"/me sways her hips seductively licking her lips softly with her wet tongue."
"/me smiles shyly "Hello Sir/Miss [name] and welcome to the Toy Slaves Brothel".
This way is more sensual and customers will come to see you dance and tip you. The greeting is only the start, stay with the customer, encourage them to have a seat. Even if they seem disinterested return to them every once in awhile making sure everything is okay. Tease them with an emote or two directed at them specifically. Believe it or not, the customers come to the girls who seem active.
HINT...... BIG HINT.
Don't write paragraphs. If you write too much in the same sequence, clients will not read what you write. Instead, write smaller sentences like on the example above. Short well written sentences are easy to follow. Long paragraphs take time to read, and you can quickly lose the client's interest.
SECOND BIG HINT.
As much as possible, don't use automatic emoters or cut and paste emotes. And never use the automatic emoters in their green text mode. Clients are here to be entertained by you, not by a long impersonal emote clearly from an automatic emoter. Soon there will be a TSB HUD available with some of those goodies. You can use the scripted toys on occasion, but as a complement to what you are doing, not as the main attraction. That becomes old quickly, and the clients have read all those scripts already. Be original.
THIRD, a little hint
It can be fun to use your emotes to play with the customers. Try to make the emote fit the action in the club. If someone compliments you maybe laugh or smile and move toward them running a finger through their hair, or even, just wink at them. Think of what you would do if you were really bold and brash when someone complimented you.
FOURTH, the little things count
Occasionally check to see that others see what you see. Some of the new viewers might show you something but not your client. I recently had a hot and sexy session with a client who at the end of it thanked me, said it was great, BUT, it would have been better if I had taken my clothes off. I HAD, but he didn't see it, for him I remained fully clothed. Since then I have occasionally made sure to rebake (Ctrl+Alt+R) during my act.
HOW TO GET TIPS ?
Once a client is watching you dance, you have to try to get tips from him. To keep their interest, you should emote to the client at least once every three minutes (minimum). Describe what you are doing, how you are doing it. Make it hot, sensual, interesting.
"/me dances slowly, caressing her skin with her fingertips, tracing the lines of her body"
Flirt with the clients, but remain respectful. How you talk to the clients also depends on your relationship and familiarity with them, so it will vary.
Thank the clients for tipping you. If you want more tips, thank them. And make it worth their while to tip you.
VERY BAD EXAMPLE : ty Sir. BAD EXAMPLE : Thank you very much Sir [name] GOOD EXAMPLE : /me comes closer to Miss/Sir [name] and leans towards Him/her whispering in Her/his ear ~ thank you so much Miss/Sir. EVEN BETTER: Make a show of it.... /me looks over her shoulder and winks, as she moves closer to him, she peels the string of her thong from her side allowing him to tuck the bills close to her skin; ""Ooooo, Thank You" she purrs as she pats his hand and guides it over her firm ass an emote this long you might break up you want to keep your tipper focussed on you, waiting for the next move. So maybe break it like this /me looks over her shoulder and winks, as she moves closer to him ***now type the next bit she peels the string of her thong from her side allowing him to tuck the bills close to her skin
then
"Ooooo, Thank You" she purrs as she she pats his hand and guides it over her firm ass long emotes like these can be difficult if there are many dancers so use them when appropriate but they do hold a tipper's interest and often they tip again to see what you'll come up with next.
If your emotes are good enough, the customer will certainly tip you more or few times later. So you know what to do...
WHAT TO DO IF I HAVE TO BE AFK ?
First be sure that there is at least one person in the club to replace you and who can greet customers. To be clear, if you need to go to RL and there is no one with you in the club, send a notice in Toy Slave chat advising of your situation and go...that is after all our number 1 rule. Try to give some notice, but, if that isn't possible, Go!
If you want to stay online, there is an area near the escort boards where customers can see you, but, are warned that you are away from your computer. It's not good when customers come into a club to see dancers afk on the stage, it doesn't look professional. So get off the stage and kneel on a carpet like a good pet. (You can even wear a gag to indicate that you are unable to speak at the moment).
HOW TO ADD SOMEONE TO THE TOY SLAVES LOVERS GROUP ?
When you meet someone really interested by the group, it is good to add Her/him in the group. However you should always ask the people who come to the club if they are interested in joining the group.
To invite someone to the group, right click on the avatar, select More from the pie menu, select select Group Invite, select Toy Slaves Lovers, click ok.
FINAL NOTE
This is show business. Two words.
Show. That is what you sell. You sell looks, skills, fantasy, eroticism. You sell entertainment. The better you are at it, the more success you will have.
Business. You have to make money to stay in business. Someone has to pay for the sim, for the tier, for the clothes. That someone should be the clients that come and see you. So sell, sell, sell. And what you are selling is yourself. The more you sell, the more we can spend on making the place better, so that you can earn more.
Some emoting examples:
Greeting
It is often as important to get a quick greeting out to a customer entering the club as it is to make it a quality one. Sometimes the most you can hope to do is an initial Hello Mr. , Sir followed by a Welcome to Toy Slaves Sir this is especially true when you find yourself in the club alone. After a while you will develop your own style and you should use it to make yourself more unique, more recognizable to customers If you have dominants or other girls acting as greeters in the club with you, you may be able to be more expressive, perhaps try some of these.
/me tilts her head slightly as she watches the well dressed Gentleman enter the club; "Greetings Mr. Longstaff, welcome to Toy Slaves" /me smiles brightly, her green eyes sparkle from the brilliant club lights and her soft pink lips form a succulent pout; "Please Sir, may I assist you in finding a girl that suits your liking?" /me giggles at Mr. Longstaff's creative humor; "Oh yes Sir, the girls are quite prepared to offer any service you desire...May I suggest Chari' who is dancing at the stage on the stool?" /me playfully winks as she pats his bottom with her feather duster; "Oh yes Sir, I assure you she is equally proficient on a pole as she is on her stool", she teases... /me presses her pink lips to his cheek leaving a sexy print of her lips;..."Please let me know if I may be of any further assistance Mr. Longstaff"
The above emotes provide an example of how to properly greet a Guest. It is composed of five parts: GREET, ASSIST, RECOMMEND, DIRECT, and CLOSE. Toy's should practice and prepare greeting Guests properly before their first day greeting.
Dancing
Similarly, you should develop your own style emotes when dancing. It will make you recognizable to the customers. Watch what works and enhance it. Following are some examples of things you might try or modify. Be creative, describe what you are doing, make it sexy and enticing...
/me saunters over to the long, stiff pole, wrapping her freshly manicured fingers around its girth; "I must have been a very good girl, to be given such a big rod to play with", she teases... /me grips the pole tightly in her hand, relaxes her weight and begins to spin, her fiery red tresses flailing behind her as the momentum builds and her pert bottom juts out above him, "Would you say I am a good girl Mr. Longstaff?", she winks... /me smacks her firm ass knowing he is correct, "Maybe Mr. Longstaff could think of a suitable punishment for such a naughty girl?" she pouts as she rubs her bottom? /me steps off the stage and crawls across his lap, her legs playfully kicking up behind her as she nibbles the tip of her finger as he slides the crisp note into her lacy lavender panties and swats her bottom, "Ooooo, Mr. Longstaff, thank you for setting this girl straight!" she coos... /me steps back onto the stage, bends over with the pole between her cheeks, tosses her flaming mane up over her shoulder and grins wickedly, "Oh, I can only imagine what you might do to me in private!"
Our dancers must be able to grasp the Guests’ minds with her words and tie them to the visual cues of the dance and input from the Guests.
The final line also demonstrates a technique of placing the thought of going further with a Toy in private. Get them interested and then "seal the deal"
As a dancer, do not just wear two pieces of clothing...layer your outfit. A top and skirt is fine, but have sexy lingerie underneath as well; 3 or 4 pieces of clothing are optimal (shoes do not count, they never come off). This will increase the amount of L$ you are tipped before you are completely naked.
Do not change clothing on stage or in view of the public. Go to a private area in the sim to do these tasks.
Dancers will thank all Guests who tip no matter what the size of the tip. Some potential clients use small tips to determine if you are worth their time. Ignore them, and they will not be spending their money or time on you.
SPECIAL NOTE: Keep your sisters advised about clients who are actively pursuing you for services in IM. There is nothing more frustrating than having a client snatched away by a sister who moves to him when you are already hard at work. Most interactions with the clients should be in local chat until the client either IMs you with his/her request or makes it clear through tipping that you are the choice. Make sure to advise your sisters in Toy Slaves Group Chat. Simply communicating it saves a lot of hurt feelings. Remember, we are all working toward the same goal.
Transition
One of the hardest skills in the club is the transition between dancer to that of escort. Yes, some Guests may just come out and request our services, but the majority sit back and need a little push.
Have your ratecard ready and be prepared to present it at any time.
Speak with them privately in IM when setting up the escorting. Many Guests do not want others to know they hire professionals for this service.
Ask them what type of activity they prefer and for how long. If you are unable or have no experience in that area, or do not have sufficient uninterrupted time, let the Guest know and TELL them that you will contact another Toy who can provide that service. If they ask why you cannot provide the service, explain and let them know you wish them to have the best possible experience available in SL.
Decide upon a location in which to perform your contract. Make sure you are thoroughly familiar with that location and the equipment there before you go.
IMPORTANT* IMPORTANT* IMPORTANT
Obtain Payment PRIOR TO performing your services.The time you spend discussing the customer's needs should not count in the length of time he/she purchases. If a customer has trouble deciding what they want, help them by recommending an area or activity. Many customers know only that they want sex but are not familiar with our play areas. There was a link to a portals tour video in the training documents you received during intake. If you missed it, the link is provided here...
THANKING THE GUESTS
Toys will at all times be courteous and thankful for the Guests they are allowed to serve. Every Toy will make an effort to emote detailed thank you's to the Guests and Clients. It does not matter their age is in SL, or how much money they spend in our club, they all deserve our thanks for visiting our home. Learning to properly express our thanks to our Guests insures that they understand we are grateful for their patronage. This will create an environment to which they will want to return.
The information above is contained in book form here. Click on the book to view a full sized version or go toCalameo to view it there or even download it.
Dancing in the club is not about getting on a dance pole and turning off your brain. The dancing is the first impression our new customers have of the club and for many of them it is what leads them to do more than just watch the dancers. You control this by the quality of your greeting and your ongoing emotes. A club with a centre stage full of cheerful girls on poles teasing each other and the customers leads to a happy and exciting atmosphere. The club is where you belong.
Customers come here for many reasons, some like the conversation. These can be your most interesting clients, they stimulate you and make the evening go faster. Others want you to turn them on with your emotes, there are good prospects of taking these clients to one of our play areas for more.
Still other clients come to just watch. Sometimes you can with good emoting and teasing get these customers to have sex, but, failing that they are still valuable to us and we want to keep them in the club. They add to our traffic numbers whether they pay or not. Traffic is one measure people look at in search when deciding where to come.
You, with how you treat our customers determine our success
HOW TO SPEAK WITH A CUSTOMER ?
Always use complete words and call the customer Sir/Miss (with the initial letter in capital) and the name. Be sure to write the name properly.
Good example: Hello Mr. Jones, how are you on this fine day?
Bad example: Hi Mr. Jones, hru 2day?
Send a client an IM.
Some clients are just shy. If they don’t respond to you in chat, send a short, polite IM. Try and get their attention, but don’t overdo it.
Example: "How are you, Sir" simple and not too obtrusive.
*Also note that many people do not recognize the difference between Chat and IM and so you may need to say...I am in IM now Sir...How are you, Sir?
HOW TO DANCE ?
Portal 1 is a mock-up of the center stage in the club. Only the central position is recreated. It is the position on the main stage where you can change the equipment. Always be sure to stand off of the equipment you are using before changing. Also, please be careful to wait for everything in the club to rezz before changing the center position pole. Often the last objects to rezz are the poles and your sister's avatar.
If you haven't watched the video presented to you as you walked down the green line, watch it now. It explains and illustrates exactly what you need to do in portal 1.
1. We have a variety of animations and devices available for dancers. There are the dance poles. They are from Sine Waves and contain a variety of sensual dances.One of the available center poles on the main stage is a double pole (it has a red base) and quite popular with the customers and your sisters. In addition to the pole, the center station on the main stage has floor dances, a stool, a chair and a floor mat with very sexy dances. Clicking on the front of the main stage will show you a pop-up menu with the choices of the devices available. This system, in a slightly different configuration exists on the far right stage (as you look at the stage from the audience's perspective). Always be sure to stand up from the item you are using before choosing a new one or you will follow the pole, mat or chair below the stage and almost certainly drown. Right clicking on most of the devices will give you a menu and a chance to select dance from the pie menu.
2. There is a chimera available in the club, for the use of our staff only please. It is located by Rhianna (the DJ). Click on the laptop next to her to activate it.
If you have one, use your own personal dance. You can purchase dance animations for your avatar from places like Sine Waves. And with a chimera or dance animator, you can have complete control of your dances anywhere you wish. How to use those will of course depend on the options you purchased and installed.
HOW TO LOG INTO A JAR ?
When you come on the stage you will have to log into a jar to get tips. The jars are around the stage. You have just to wear your group tag and click on the jar to log in. If you leave the club area or relog you will be logged out of the tip jar, however, if you only go backstage while away from your computer for some RL distraction, please log out of the jar. Please try to remember to log out. There are a limited number of jars. The tip jars start with an amount already showing along with an amount and a ficticious name for the last tipper. Hopefully this encourages customers to tip (they do not see girls on stage with $0L ever). The jars will log you out if you leave the area of the stage, but, if you log into the same jar when you return and no one has used it in the meantime, your totals will be preserved. Madame receives the tip money as it is deposited in the jars so nothing is lost if the total is overwritten when another girl signs into the same jar.
THE CUSTOMER CHAIRS AT THE STAGE
The chairs at the stage have regular sit animations in them. Customers use these by right clicking the chair. There is also a lapdance menu in the chair. You, as the dancer, access it by clicking on the base of the chair (usually the front half). The menu you get has 3 dance styles...warm, hot and very hot. Practice with them and decide which ones you like best. In addition to the standing dances, there is a button for lapdance.
Please use the chairs to thank customers for tips and to warm them up for bigger and better things. The length of time you spend in the chair should more or less represent the tip you got. Fifty lindens is going to be a shorter dance with less moves and shorter emotes than a $100L tip or $200L. Often clients will continue to tip you as you dance. This is very good but it will challenge you to continue the dance and the emotes. One way that seems to work, to squeeze more tips in the middle of a dance, is emoting the easing out of his/her lap. The prospect of the dance ending can wring a few more lindens out of your client.
A client who undresses or pulls his cock out should be told that we do those types of things in private. Quietly back out of his lap if he insists and always recommend that you go some place private.
Don't forget that as a thank you for tips we still strip. Mix the stripping with trips to the chairs or include it in your lap dance for the bigger tips.
STRIPPING ANIMATIONS
You will see a green bar at the edge of the stage in front of the centre pole. It is visible from the poles. It contains Dance animations (floor dances, very sexy ones) and the Strip animations.
When dancing on the poles it is important to remember to "Stand Up" before using the strip animations. So use stand up and step a little away from your pole, otherwise, you will stand with the pole through your body. The strip animations will override the chair animations so it is not necessary to get out of that menu. In both cases, however, you must click on the pole or restart the lap dance/freestyle menu once the strip menu has finished playing.
The strip menu mimics taking off stockings, top, bra, bottom and shoes (giggles, not in this lifetime). The animation is only an animation, you will still need to use the menu to actually remove the item. It will take a little practice, but it, like the chairs, is something we have that other clubs don't and should impress your customer.
Please practice with the menus. You will find it fun and very easy to work.
THE SIDE STAGES
There are 4 side stages, 2 to the right and 2 to the left of the main stage. They are lower and different sizes. The 2 smallest are closest to the main stage and to the right and left. They have dances loaded into them and may be occupied on occasion by afk girls. If they are empty feel free to use them. The stage furthest to the left as you look at the stage (closest to the Asian portal) is used for special live BDSM sex shows. It will have various pieces of equipment available from time to time.Clicking the stage will give you a pop up and the opportunity to chose another piece of equipment. The stage is most often used when a girl or customer requires public humiliation.
The large stage on the far right (the opposite side) has dances loaded as well and can have various other mats and furs available. At the time of this writing it has a dance pole, dance chair, dance stool, dance blanket and a streetlamp loaded with free form dances. In addition, there are some sex animations available in sex furs and a sex picnic rug.
In addition you can dance on the bar near Rhianna by left clicking the bar top, there are two spots available there.
There are a few other areas available. The bird bath for one. If they are unoccupied you can use them but they are often manned by bots (set as scripted agents to avoid charges of traffic tampering). It can be fun to try these and work out new emotes.
Madame and her team are constantly experimenting with other ways to incorporate dancing into the club. Notices of changes are provided in group notices between updates to this training card.
HOW TO EMOTE ?
(Some sample cards you can copy are on their own wiki page) HERE
It is very simple to emote you just have to start your text with /me in the local chat. You will then speak in the 3rd person and be able to describe what you feel and what you do. Writing good emotes takes training and is a bit difficult at the start. Do it as often as you can and you will quickly emote naturally. To start just describe what you are doing, even just follow the actions on the pole. After not very long you'll be adding flare to it.
/me blows a kiss to the handsome gentleman
becomes
(Your SL Name) blows a kiss to the handsome gentleman
HOW TO GREET ?
It is very important to greet people who come here to spend money ! They need to feel welcome or they will leave.
There are two ways to greet people: speaking or emoting.
SPEAKING:
"Hello Sir/Miss [name]. Welcome to the Toy Slaves Brothel."
if you see the customer looks shy or lost you can ask if he needs help. Don't forget the capital letter for Miss and Sir. Vary your greetings a little; when the customers are coming in fast it gets pretty boring to say the same thing again and again.
EMOTING:
You can heat the customers up and greet them in the same time. This way is harder and you need to be a bit experienced in emoting. An example is
"/me sways her hips seductively licking her lips softly with her wet tongue."
"/me smiles shyly "Hello Sir/Miss [name] and welcome to the Toy Slaves Brothel".
This way is more sensual and customers will come to see you dance and tip you. The greeting is only the start, stay with the customer, encourage them to have a seat. Even if they seem disinterested return to them every once in awhile making sure everything is okay. Tease them with an emote or two directed at them specifically. Believe it or not, the customers come to the girls who seem active.
HINT...... BIG HINT.
Don't write paragraphs. If you write too much in the same sequence, clients will not read what you write. Instead, write smaller sentences like on the example above. Short well written sentences are easy to follow. Long paragraphs take time to read, and you can quickly lose the client's interest.
SECOND BIG HINT.
As much as possible, don't use automatic emoters or cut and paste emotes. And never use the automatic emoters in their green text mode. Clients are here to be entertained by you, not by a long impersonal emote clearly from an automatic emoter. Soon there will be a TSB HUD available with some of those goodies. You can use the scripted toys on occasion, but as a complement to what you are doing, not as the main attraction. That becomes old quickly, and the clients have read all those scripts already. Be original.
THIRD, a little hint
It can be fun to use your emotes to play with the customers. Try to make the emote fit the action in the club. If someone compliments you maybe laugh or smile and move toward them running a finger through their hair, or even, just wink at them. Think of what you would do if you were really bold and brash when someone complimented you.
FOURTH, the little things count
Occasionally check to see that others see what you see. Some of the new viewers might show you something but not your client. I recently had a hot and sexy session with a client who at the end of it thanked me, said it was great, BUT, it would have been better if I had taken my clothes off. I HAD, but he didn't see it, for him I remained fully clothed. Since then I have occasionally made sure to rebake (Ctrl+Alt+R) during my act.
HOW TO GET TIPS ?
Once a client is watching you dance, you have to try to get tips from him. To keep their interest, you should emote to the client at least once every three minutes (minimum). Describe what you are doing, how you are doing it. Make it hot, sensual, interesting.
"/me dances slowly, caressing her skin with her fingertips, tracing the lines of her body"
Flirt with the clients, but remain respectful. How you talk to the clients also depends on your relationship and familiarity with them, so it will vary.
Thank the clients for tipping you. If you want more tips, thank them. And make it worth their while to tip you.
VERY BAD EXAMPLE : ty Sir.
BAD EXAMPLE : Thank you very much Sir [name]
GOOD EXAMPLE : /me comes closer to Miss/Sir [name] and leans towards Him/her whispering in Her/his ear ~ thank you so much Miss/Sir.
EVEN BETTER: Make a show of it.... /me looks over her shoulder and winks, as she moves closer to him, she peels the string of her thong from her side allowing him to tuck the bills close to her skin; ""Ooooo, Thank You" she purrs as she pats his hand and guides it over her firm ass
an emote this long you might break up you want to keep your tipper focussed on you, waiting for the next move.
So maybe break it like this
/me looks over her shoulder and winks, as she moves closer to him
***now type the next bit
she peels the string of her thong from her side allowing him to tuck the bills close to her skin
- then
"Ooooo, Thank You" she purrs as she she pats his hand and guides it over her firm asslong emotes like these can be difficult if there are many dancers so use them when appropriate but they do hold a tipper's interest and often they tip again to see what you'll come up with next.
If your emotes are good enough, the customer will certainly tip you more or few times later. So you know what to do...
WHAT TO DO IF I HAVE TO BE AFK ?
First be sure that there is at least one person in the club to replace you and who can greet customers. To be clear, if you need to go to RL and there is no one with you in the club, send a notice in Toy Slave chat advising of your situation and go...that is after all our number 1 rule. Try to give some notice, but, if that isn't possible, Go!
If you want to stay online, there is an area near the escort boards where customers can see you, but, are warned that you are away from your computer. It's not good when customers come into a club to see dancers afk on the stage, it doesn't look professional. So get off the stage and kneel on a carpet like a good pet. (You can even wear a gag to indicate that you are unable to speak at the moment).
HOW TO ADD SOMEONE TO THE TOY SLAVES LOVERS GROUP ?
When you meet someone really interested by the group, it is good to add Her/him in the group. However you should always ask the people who come to the club if they are interested in joining the group.
To invite someone to the group, right click on the avatar, select More from the pie menu, select select Group Invite, select Toy Slaves Lovers, click ok.
FINAL NOTE
This is show business. Two words.
Show. That is what you sell. You sell looks, skills, fantasy, eroticism. You sell entertainment. The better you are at it, the more success you will have.
Business. You have to make money to stay in business. Someone has to pay for the sim, for the tier, for the clothes. That someone should be the clients that come and see you. So sell, sell, sell. And what you are selling is yourself. The more you sell, the more we can spend on making the place better, so that you can earn more.
Some emoting examples:
Greeting
It is often as important to get a quick greeting out to a customer entering the club as it is to make it a quality one. Sometimes the most you can hope to do is an initial Hello Mr. , Sir
followed by a Welcome to Toy Slaves Sir
this is especially true when you find yourself in the club alone.
After a while you will develop your own style and you should use it to make yourself more unique, more recognizable to customers
If you have dominants or other girls acting as greeters in the club with you, you may be able to be more expressive, perhaps try some of these.
/me tilts her head slightly as she watches the well dressed Gentleman enter the club; "Greetings Mr. Longstaff, welcome to Toy Slaves"
/me smiles brightly, her green eyes sparkle from the brilliant club lights and her soft pink lips form a succulent pout; "Please Sir, may I assist you in finding a girl that suits your liking?"
/me giggles at Mr. Longstaff's creative humor; "Oh yes Sir, the girls are quite prepared to offer any service you desire...May I suggest Chari' who is dancing at the stage on the stool?"
/me playfully winks as she pats his bottom with her feather duster; "Oh yes Sir, I assure you she is equally proficient on a pole as she is on her stool", she teases...
/me presses her pink lips to his cheek leaving a sexy print of her lips;..."Please let me know if I may be of any further assistance Mr. Longstaff"
The above emotes provide an example of how to properly greet a Guest. It is composed of five parts: GREET, ASSIST, RECOMMEND, DIRECT, and CLOSE. Toy's should practice and prepare greeting Guests properly before their first day greeting.
Dancing
Similarly, you should develop your own style emotes when dancing. It will make you recognizable to the customers. Watch what works and enhance it. Following are some examples of things you might try or modify. Be creative, describe what you are doing, make it sexy and enticing...
/me saunters over to the long, stiff pole, wrapping her freshly manicured fingers around its girth; "I must have been a very good girl, to be given such a big rod to play with", she teases...
/me grips the pole tightly in her hand, relaxes her weight and begins to spin, her fiery red tresses flailing behind her as the momentum builds and her pert bottom juts out above him, "Would you say I am a good girl Mr. Longstaff?", she winks...
/me smacks her firm ass knowing he is correct, "Maybe Mr. Longstaff could think of a suitable punishment for such a naughty girl?" she pouts as she rubs her bottom?
/me steps off the stage and crawls across his lap, her legs playfully kicking up behind her as she nibbles the tip of her finger as he slides the crisp note into her lacy lavender panties and swats her bottom, "Ooooo, Mr. Longstaff, thank you for setting this girl straight!" she coos...
/me steps back onto the stage, bends over with the pole between her cheeks, tosses her flaming mane up over her shoulder and grins wickedly, "Oh, I can only imagine what you might do to me in private!"
Our dancers must be able to grasp the Guests’ minds with her words and tie them to the visual cues of the dance and input from the Guests.
The final line also demonstrates a technique of placing the thought of going further with a Toy in private. Get them interested and then "seal the deal"
As a dancer, do not just wear two pieces of clothing...layer your outfit. A top and skirt is fine, but have sexy lingerie underneath as well; 3 or 4 pieces of clothing are optimal (shoes do not count, they never come off). This will increase the amount of L$ you are tipped before you are completely naked.
Do not change clothing on stage or in view of the public. Go to a private area in the sim to do these tasks.
Dancers will thank all Guests who tip no matter what the size of the tip. Some potential clients use small tips to determine if you are worth their time. Ignore them, and they will not be spending their money or time on you.
SPECIAL NOTE:
Keep your sisters advised about clients who are actively pursuing you for services in IM. There is nothing more frustrating than having a client snatched away by a sister who moves to him when you are already hard at work. Most interactions with the clients should be in local chat until the client either IMs you with his/her request or makes it clear through tipping that you are the choice. Make sure to advise your sisters in Toy Slaves Group Chat. Simply communicating it saves a lot of hurt feelings.
Remember, we are all working toward the same goal.
Transition
One of the hardest skills in the club is the transition between dancer to that of escort. Yes, some Guests may just come out and request our services, but the majority sit back and need a little push.
Have your ratecard ready and be prepared to present it at any time.
Speak with them privately in IM when setting up the escorting. Many Guests do not want others to know they hire professionals for this service.
Ask them what type of activity they prefer and for how long. If you are unable or have no experience in that area, or do not have sufficient uninterrupted time, let the Guest know and TELL them that you will contact another Toy who can provide that service. If they ask why you cannot provide the service, explain and let them know you wish them to have the best possible experience available in SL.
Decide upon a location in which to perform your contract. Make sure you are thoroughly familiar with that location and the equipment there before you go.
IMPORTANT* IMPORTANT* IMPORTANT
Obtain Payment PRIOR TO performing your services.The time you spend discussing the customer's needs should not count in the length of time he/she purchases. If a customer has trouble deciding what they want, help them by recommending an area or activity. Many customers know only that they want sex but are not familiar with our play areas. There was a link to a portals tour video in the training documents you received during intake. If you missed it, the link is provided here...
THANKING THE GUESTS
Toys will at all times be courteous and thankful for the Guests they are allowed to serve. Every Toy will make an effort to emote detailed thank you's to the Guests and Clients. It does not matter their age is in SL, or how much money they spend in our club, they all deserve our thanks for visiting our home. Learning to properly express our thanks to our Guests insures that they understand we are grateful for their patronage. This will create an environment to which they will want to return.
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